AP - Investors who doubted U.S. companies could make big money in a weak economy have been proved wrong again.
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Volcker wants crackdown on money market funds, GSEs (Reuters)
Reuters - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is advocating for regulatory control over the money-market mutual fund industry and believes the government should stop financing mortgages.
Japan's Tepco to sell 20 percent stake in wind power unit: repor (Reuters)
Reuters - Tokyo Electric Power Co is likely to sell a 20 percent stake in wind power developer Eurus Energy Holdings to trading firm Toyota Tsusho to help raise funds to compensate victims of Japan's nuclear crisis, a newspaper said on Sunday.
Declining numbers of blacks seen in math, science (AP)
AP - With black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren't more African-Americans looking toward science, technology, engineering and math — the still-hiring careers known as STEM?
Occupy Chicago: 130 arrested in city park protest (AP)
AP - Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests early Sunday, authorities said.
China's Wen says jobs a priority despite economic headwinds (Reuters)
Reuters - China will make job creation a more urgent priority in the face of slowed economic growth and weakened exports, Premier Wen Jibao said in comments published on Sunday, also warning that efforts to tame housing prices were at a critical point.
Panasonic to slash domestic chip output: Nikkei (Reuters)
Reuters - Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp will scale back domestic semiconductor output by the end of March 2012 and cut about 1,000 jobs, reflecting its recent move to reduce TV panel production, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
'Occupy' camps provide food, shelter for homeless (AP)
AP - When Occupy Wall Street protesters took over two parks in Portland's soggy downtown, they pitched 300 tents and offered free food, medical care and shelter to anyone. They weren't just building, like so many of their brethren across the nation, a community to protest what they see as corporate greed.
Ohio case renews old questions about exotic pets (AP)
AP - Yadah used to be an adorable baby. Now he's a cranky 5-year-old with a willful streak and a $250-per-month food bill, and Shannon Pandarvis is desperate to get rid of him.
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